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Why applicants need to be 18 years or over to apply
Any applicant for sub-contracted Workplace Cleaning Solutions Commercial Cleaning roles need to be 18 years or over because the cleaning hours are unsupervised and therefore require the applicant to be an adult.
For more information on the laws governing workers under the age of 18, please check out the links below;
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/employing-workers-under-18-years-of-age-and-the-law/
https://www.gov.uk/child-employment
https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/restrictions-on-child-employment
Your school leaving age depends on where you live.
https://www.gov.uk/know-when-you-can-leave-school
What steps can I take to get cleaning roles if I am under 18 years old?
There are lots of large-scale commercial cleaning organisations that have cleaning supervisors and may be able to take on applicants who are under 18 years old.
These types of cleaning jobs are typically advertised on recruitment sites like Indeed
Here is the link for Indeed https://uk.indeed.com/ if you would like to search for supervised cleaning roles.
Here are other useful articles on how to get started in the Cleaning Industry;
You can still work as an independent cleaner, we have created lots of FREE resources in our Cleaner Starter Pack for you to use to help get you started! Click here to access the Cleaner Starter Pack
You can also get more details from this article on ways to get office cleaning jobs. To access the article, click here 5 ways to get office cleaning jobs